Arabic MS 442 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

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Summary of Contents: Explanation of difficult words in al-Maḳāmāt al-Hindīyah (The Indian Assemblies) (see JRL Arabic MS 313 [Mingana catalogue no. 702], no yet digitised).

Title: Explanation of difficult words in al-Maqāmāt al-Hindīyah

Language(s): Arabic

No author's name is found in the short preamble, but at the end on folio 10b the name Muḥammad al-Hāshim al-Darquṭniمهمد الهاشم الدرقطني occurs. According to Mingana, this person was probably the author of the work and he must have lived around 1790 CE. From the wording of the colophon it appears that the manuscript is an autograph of Darquṭni.

The number of maqamahs is written on the margins, and at the end occurs the following inscription (in the same hand): تم الاصلاح في المقامات الهندية .

Incipit: الحمد لله الرحمن الرحيم... لا فوقه العليم ططط وبعد فهذا تضيل لما اجمل تسهيل لما اشكل في المقامات الجندية من المقامات الهندية

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Paper.

Extent: 10 folios (iii+10+i)

Dimensions (leaf): 260 × 180 mm.

Dimensions (written): 200 × 100-120 mm.

Foliation: Modern foliation in Western Arabic numberals in pencil.

Collation

One quire of 8+2 leaves (exact structure is not clear). No catchwords.

Condition

Usage stains.

Layout

Uniform layout. Each section is divided with a line. Wide margins with section titles and numbers and other notes.

Hand(s)

Indian Nastaʿlīq script. Fully rubricated on folios 1-3 and no rubrications on folios 4-10. Broad margins.

History

Origin:

Provenance and Acquisition

Previously in the collection of Colonel George William Hamilton (1807-1868) who served in India from 1823 to 1867, latterly as Commissioner of Delhi. He acquired over a thousand Indian and Persian manuscripts, from which the British Museum selected 352, now held in the British Library; his ownership inscription on flyleaf ia: كرنيل جارج وليم هملتن صاحب بهادر and description of the contents: لغات مقامات هندي. His label on back paste-down: Hamilton MSS 238

Formerly in the collection of Alexander Lindsay, 25th Earl of Crawford (1812–1880) Crawford, Alexander Crawford Lindsay, 1812-1880. His bookplate on back paste-down: Bibliotheca Lindesiana 3/F

Purchased by Enriqueta Rylands (1843–1908) Rylands, Enriqueta, 1843–1908 in 1901 from James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford (1847–1913) Crawford, James Ludovic Lindsay, Earl of, 1847–1913 .

Purchased by Enriqueta Rylands in 1901 from James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford, for the John Rylands Library.

Bequeathed by Enriqueta Rylands (1843–1908) in 1908 to John Rylands Library.

Record Sources

Catalogue information compiled by Abdullah al-Rashidi from Alphonse Mingana, Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library, Manchester University Press, 1934. Revised and expanded by Zsófia Buda.

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Subjects

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